Operations Executive

Salary: upto £24,000

Location: London

SUMMARY OF JOB: The primary responsibility of this role is to ensure that the agency management system (Maconomy) is utilized correctly by the company, and to generate reports from the system to assist in the management of the business. Analysis and interpretation of...

SUMMARY OF JOB: The primary responsibility of this role is to ensure that the agency management system (Maconomy) is utilized correctly by the company, and to generate reports from the system to assist in the management of the business. Analysis and interpretation of the reporting will also be strongly encouraged. This role sits within the Commercial area of the Agency Finance team
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RESPONSIBILITIES:

Commercial / Management Reporting

· Produce regular reports for analysis and use by the Finance and Business teams
· Understand what information is valuable and necessary, and design reports accordingly
· Standardise report production where possible
· Ad hoc tasks as necessary


Financial Controls

· Ensure all timesheets are completed in the Agency reporting system (Maconomy)
· Assist users to ensure accuracy of time reporting
· Input time into Maconomy where personnel are unable
· Facilitate set up of new suppliers on system
· Set up job numbers on system
· Assist in ensuring SOX compliance of systems
· Complete credit applications
· Facilitate Bacs and Cash Transfers


Process Management

· Active role in Maconomy training of new and existing users
· Answer Maconomy access and set-up requests
· Troubleshooting of Maconomy issues

Core Skills

· Approachable. Keen to help. Problem solving attitude
· Good communicator
· Good time management skills
· Interest in marketing and eager to learn about operation of business
· Ability to work proactively
· Good Excel skills and interest in management reporting and analysis
· Knowledge of Maconomy is desirable but not essential

Ogilvy Action:

OgilvyAction is a global, through-the-line marketing services agency which focuses on driving brand sales and building brand equity for their clients. The company works with its clients to produce new and creative ways for consumers to interact with...

Ogilvy Action:

OgilvyAction is a global, through-the-line marketing services agency which focuses on driving brand sales and building brand equity for their clients. The company works with its clients to produce new and creative ways for consumers to interact with their brands. Its global network of 46 offices in 36 countries leverages deep industry expertise and proprietary tools to drive both sales and brand equity for both local and global clients. OgilvyAction offers a wide spectrum of services including shopper & trade marketing, experiential marketing, digital and retail design.

Applications to: richard.alberto@ogilvy.com

Senior Account Director - BAT UK & Ireland

Salary: £45,000 - £53,000

Location: London

Roles and Responsibilities:

Project Management
· Lead the growth of the UK and Ireland account, achieving revenue growth and maintaining client confidence
• Lead initiative for Dark Market Solutions, especially in light of UK’s impending display ban in 2011–...

Roles and Responsibilities:

Project Management
· Lead the growth of the UK and Ireland account, achieving revenue growth and maintaining client confidence
• Lead initiative for Dark Market Solutions, especially in light of UK’s impending display ban in 2011– Share learnings across BAT offices in Europe to gain competitive advantage
· Continue to explore Digital & Mobile marketing opportunities (own team plus the wider BAT team) and demonstrate conversion to revenue by March 2010
· Improve internal comms between Creative and Digital depts and be prepared to demonstrate the benefits of this activity
· Ultimately responsible for the quality of the creative work and for motivating members of the team to achieve the highest creative standards
• Prepare the Business Plans which define the needs of the accounts including business development opportunities and resource needs agreed with Department Heads

People Management
• Be responsible for leading best practice in Inductions, Team Training and Development – all of which will be rolled out across BAT
· Fully responsible for the management of the team, their overall performance and career progression. Specific tasks include the setting of clear objectives, delegation, coaching, feedback and the completion of appraisals.

Ogilvy Action:

OgilvyAction is a global, through-the-line marketing services agency which focuses on driving brand sales and building brand equity for their clients. The company works with its clients to produce new and creative ways for consumers to interact with...

Applications to: richard.alberto@ogilvy.com

Account Manager - HSBC

Salary: £25,000 - £28,000

Location: London

Overall
· Look after the smooth week-by-week running of the account and the effective management of all Client projects
· Take and interrogate Client briefs from clients and initiate getting the brief into the system
· Effective upward and downward delegation is...

Overall
· Look after the smooth week-by-week running of the account and the effective management of all Client projects
· Take and interrogate Client briefs from clients and initiate getting the brief into the system
· Effective upward and downward delegation is essential.
· As the Account Manager moves towards promotion to Senior Account Manager he/she will begin to show leadership and drive in thinking of innovative solutions to business/strategic problems and in merchandising the Agency's services.

Contribution towards insights
· Understand the challenges facing Client's business in the short-term – good understanding of financial outlook and ‘International business’. (I.e. reading the Economist and FT)
· Obtain a thorough understanding of all aspects of the brand - from reading reports and related literature
· Actively contribute to discussions on strategy and advertising development.

Contribution towards Ideas
· Work with Account Director/Planner (and individually for smaller briefs) to write and give inspirational creative briefs
· Keep in regular contact with Creatives during development of ideas, keeping them supplied with any useful stimulus and helping to ensure they remain motivated and enthusiastic
· Be a sound judge of creative work, able to coherently argue the case for or against creative work based on the brief and factual accuracy, both internally and with the Client
· Build up an excellent understanding of brand guidelines.

Contribution towards Implementation
· Ability to work with relevant internal parties to produce accurate cost estimates and timings plans
· Sound knowledge of print and digital production processes to be able to quickly pick up integrated briefs
· Responsible for ensuring that all estimates are presented and approved by Client expediently and that good financial records of everything are kept and maintained
· Has a thorough working knowledge of all Agency systems (knowledge of Maconomy or similar preferable)
· Ability to judge priorities across several pieces of business and varied levels of activity
· Have good eye for detail, ensuring the quality and accuracy of all materials that leave the Agency
· Ensure that all invoices are issued quickly and correctly and that reconciliations are produced as appropriate
· Make certain an evaluation of every major campaign is produced bringing together information from all relevant parties and maintaining a guard book


We have experienced a high volume of applicants to this vacancy and unfortunately we are unable to respond back to all applicants. If you have not had a response from us within one week of applying, please consider your application unsuccessful on this occasion. However, we would like to retain your CV on file incase a suitable opportunity arises that may be of interest to you in the near future.

We are a recent merger of two successful marketing communication agencies; Dialogue and 141 Worldwide. We are set up to help clients navigate the often complex customer journey from brand awareness to purchase - called thought to bought™. The agency currently works...

We are a recent merger of two successful marketing communication agencies; Dialogue and 141 Worldwide. We are set up to help clients navigate the often complex customer journey from brand awareness to purchase - called thought to bought™. The agency currently works with an impressive list of household name brands including Braun, Gillette, Duracell, McVities and Mars.

Dialogue141 is a WPP Group company and affiliate of Ogilvy Group. Its client portfolio consists of over 300 companies, including many blue chip organisations. WPP has the global HSBC business. HSBC is a significant global client for several Group companies.

Remit:
Dialogue141 provide an integrated mix of work across a number of different HSBC brands. Parts of the bank and types of work include:

UK Personal Finance – Concept generation, POS, Outdoor, Press, Radio, TV
Global and UK Commercial – POS, Design/brochureware, Digital, Press
first direct – Design, Online, Viral concepts, Taxis, campaigns
Private Bank – TV, Press, DM, Online, Brochureware
International (Jersey) – DM, Online, Brochureware
Global Asset Management - Press, Online

The role we are specifically recruiting for is on the HSBC Commercial team. However workload will mean that you will be expected to help out on the other divisions as required.

We have experienced a high volume of applicants to this vacancy and unfortunately we are unable to respond back to all applicants. If you have not had a response from us within one week of applying, please consider your application unsuccessful on this occasion. However, we would like to retain your CV on file incase a suitable opportunity arises that may be of interest to you in the near future.

Applications to: Richard.Alberto@ogilvy.com

Brand Planner - BAT

Salary: £80k - £90k

Location: London

Overview
We are looking for a planner to work with the Senior Strategic Planner as support on BAT: Smokeless Products and 555. They should be sufficiently experienced to manage some projects alone (with minimal support from Senior Strategic Planner) as well as some...

Overview
We are looking for a planner to work with the Senior Strategic Planner as support on BAT: Smokeless Products and 555. They should be sufficiently experienced to manage some projects alone (with minimal support from Senior Strategic Planner) as well as some client relationships.

Essential craft skills and level
Ability to do alone (with guidance from Senior Strategic Planner if required):
· work with Creative teams: brief writing, providing direction and reviewing work
· understand consumers, gathering the information required for insights and using them
· use research (quant and qual) effectively
· design research/write research briefs
· write well structured presentations
Ability to do with consultation:
· strategic capability: able to think through marketing options and implications across a range of market conditions and situations

Personality based skills

The BAT teams at Ogilvy Action works closely together. Our new Planner would have to want to work collaboratively with others: the creative teams and Account Management as well as other planners.
Our Clients value what we do for them and expect a high standard of work. But they can be tough to work with. They expect well supported arguments and want us to challenge them, although the process of challenge can be lively.
Our new planner must be resilient and able to ‘read’ the room; a good communicator; able to construct and deliver clear presentations.


More on the brands

BAT’s brand, 555 is marketed principally in China and Vietnam. Therefore there is a need for a planner to get quickly to grips with understanding both the Chinese/Chinese Asian’s and their relationship to cigarettes.
For this brand the scope of work will be largely focussed on producing new campaigns and developing upgrades.
In addition to this, in 2010 we are conducting a strategic overhaul of the brand involving its future direction.

The Smokeless brands assignment principally involves NPD and brand positioning.
We are currently working on 3 separate projects involving development of products and new brands.

The Agency

OgilvyAction is the global activation services company for The Ogilvy Group.

Its global network of 49 offices in 40 countries leverages deep industry expertise and proprietary Last Mile Analytics to drive both sales and brand equity for local and...

The Agency

OgilvyAction is the global activation services company for The Ogilvy Group.

Its global network of 49 offices in 40 countries leverages deep industry expertise and proprietary Last Mile Analytics to drive both sales and brand equity for local and global clients.

OgilvyAction offers a wide spectrum of services including shopper & trade marketing, experiential marketing, digital, retail design and sports & entertainment marketing. Its client portfolio features more than 300 businesses and organizations around the world.

Applications to: richard.alberto@ogilvy.com